About Airmid’s Healing Gardens
Airmid’s Healing Gardens is a non-profit farm, operated by Jessica Wroe, who is a local homesteader (Wroe-Dunlop Homestead) and highly involved in our local community. When not gardening, repairing a fence or a chicken coop, feeding and tending to her livestock, she runs (Not Dutch paintings lol), a residential and commercial painting company that services Yarmouth County. AGH’s mission is to provide sustainable and organic cultivation of medicinal herbs to supply the general public, but primarily acting as the core supplier for C+M. To ensure biodiversity, AGH also rotates vegetables and grains culture on our 2.5-acre lot. Our mission is to strengthen our community through education, ensuring food accessibility, and being a role model of land stewardship and practicing sustainable agriculture techniques.
We hope to be able to provide a garden sanctuary to many endangered plants, such as American ginseng, goldenseal, blue and black cohosh, lady slipper, rose gentian, maidenhair fern, bloodroot, eyebright, Labrador tea, huckleberry, and other native plants that we can grow within our hardy zones. We also plan to offer garden walks to the public, and related workshops as part of our educational mission.
Behind the Name
Through our love of mythology, we chose Airmid, the Irish goddess of healing, as the namesake of our medicinal herbs garden and sanctuary. She was part of the Tuatha Dé Dannan, the Irish pantheon. Airmid is a figure of tragedy and resilience. Mourning the death of her brother, she painstakingly catalogues the healing herbs sprouting from her tears, as she cried over his grave. We see her story as an intimate bond with plant medicine, and an unwavering dedication to its preservation, reflecting our own mission with our healing gardens.
Discover more: Airmid: Celtic Goddess of Healing
Behind the Logo
Inspired by the Dara Celtic knot, the braid that circles the farm’s name has no beginning nor end. To us, it symbolize the equality between us, co-owners of the healing gardens. The Dara knot is also a symbol of inner strength and wisdom. The colour green represents growth, renewal, and life. It's the color of grass, leaves, and all things vibrant and alive. Brown, on the other hand, grounds us - it's the color of the Earth, tree trunks, and branches. It represents stability, support, and resilience.
Donate
At Airmid’s Healing Gardens, one of our missions is to be an educational hub where community members, especially children, come to learn where food comes from, become environmental land stewards, and participate in local agriculture. Community support from volunteerism and monetary donations allows us to offer educational programs to teach organic farming methods to more people, bring students to our farm to learn where their food comes from and support Acts of Kindness by filling up our local free pantry.
We decided to make our gardens not-for-profit to focus on serving our community, by teaching and facilitating classes and workshops pertaining to self-reliance, land stewardship, and sustainability. Every dollar donated will help us fulfill that vision.
More information and the registered charity details will be shared soon, as transparency is important to us.